Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...long delayed their wage demands because their employers were running into bad times. But now that business was booming again, both intended to get an increase of 15%. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers beat the drums for 31?, probably would settle for about 25?, while the East Coast longshoremen set out to get another 37? an hour for their 30,000 members. In addition, countless individual craft and trade unionists, e.g., the A.F.L.'s 900,000 construction workers, were quietly pushing up their demands...
...resort for the town of Inchon, to which it is joined by a long causeway. The northern end of the tiny island had boasted a large inn, complete with swimming pool, where Inchon's successful merchants could enjoy the summer breezes. After the Communists invaded South Korea, they set up a small guard unit on the island, ringed it with earthworks and hastily dug trenches...
...set, lumbering Pershing tanks were rumbling over the causeway, and Taplett's battalion began to march slowly into Inchon...
...university Smith joined the R.O.T.C. and became a cadet 1st lieutenant. At that time he was a gawky, shy six-footer with intense, deep-set blue eyes, and was deeply in love with a merry, bouncing girl named Esther King...
Last week Oliver Prince Smith, now a major general commanding the 1st Marine Division, was ashore in Korea with the 23,000 marines who had spearheaded Douglas MacArthur's assault. Up to the time when the first marine set foot ashore, the heaviest responsibility lay on Rear Admiral James H. ("Jimmy") Doyle, amphibious attack commander, and on Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the Seventh Fleet, who softened up the shore defenses and got the troops to the beaches. After all troops were ashore, the ground fighting would be taken over by General Almond as commander of MacArthur...